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Podcast: The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast
Episode: The Old Morality of the New Religions
Description: Why does the âantiracistâ movement mobilize to deplatform or fire anyone who slights or asks the wrong questions about the dominant views of âsocial justiceâ? What explains the irrational fervor of the âwokeâ? John McWhorter, noteworthy Columbia linguistics professor and New York Times columnist, grapples with this question in his recent book, Woke Racism. The bookâs subtitle reveals his provocative answer: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America. To understand the âwokeâ movement, he shows, we must take seriously its religious character. In this episode, Ben Bayer reads aloud his article, âThe Old Morality of the New Religions.â In that essay, Bayer argue...